Hello again, fellow emotionally repressed fangirls/boys. This story was inspired by some Tumblr headcannons that were originally with *shudders* Edward and Bella *retches*. Reyna/Rachel, Princess, F/F, and with the normal PJO characters. Enjoy, and reviews are appreciated. :)

A/N: This story is also mostly in Rachel's POV.

Rachel POV

"Mother, for the last time, I am not wearing a pink dress. Just let me go in breeches. "

"Rachel, you're 16. Not 5. I will not allow you to go in pants, regardless of the 'unsuitable' color of the dress. You will go in a dress. You will behave graciously, and you will most certainly charm Prince Nico."

"Good luck with that," Rachel grumbled.

Somehow, despite her protests, she found her hair being played with and a corset being pulled tightly around her torso. Thankfully, her mother decided against a pink dress because it 'would make her look all the same all over,' and selected a turquoise, velvet, long and body conforming dress. It was simply made, much to Rachel's relief, and was to be paired with a small tiara, Rachel's usual ring, and a light pearl necklace.

Her mother sighed. "You really would look so much more lovely if you had a better body. Its a shame you're so petite."

In their kingdom, a tall and skinny body with only slight chest definition was all the rage. Unfortunately for Rachel, she was about 5"0 tall, or 1.5 meters, and was skinny, but quite curvy.

"Mother, thank you for always making me feel better about my appearance," Rachel said, completely deadpanned.

"Hm?" her mother asked, completely caught up in her own head, "Oh, no problem, dearest."

Rachel POV

After being dressed, Rachel met with her guard, Will Solace. Will was her closest friend, who she told everything to. Including her interest in women. In return, Will had confided that he was attracted to men. Especially after these confessions, the two of them grew very close.

Today, Will was going to stay with her and make sure she was safe. Especially when she and Prince Nico were to be alone together. She hoped he was dreading it as much as she.

"Rachel?" her mother was asking, snapping Rachel out of her thoughts.

"Hm?"

"Its time. I except exemplary behavior."

With that, her mother motioned for Rachel and Will to follow behind her on their walk to the ballroom.

Nico POV

Nico wanted to leave. That was one thing that sucked about being royalty. He had to listen to King Dare go on and on about his kingdom with my father, King Hades. Which is fine, let the men have their fun. The on problem was that Nico was caught in the crossfire of having to be polite and attentive, all the while trying very, very hard to space out.

He walked over to his guard, Reyna. Reyna was his closest friend, who he loved and felt comfortable talking to. He was close enough to her to reveal his biggest secret that could literally kill him; he was gay. She had laughed at his scared expression.

"Nico, I know. And I'm okay with it. Because guess what? I'm bisexual. And even if I weren't, it wouldn't change how I think of you."

He wished everyone were so understanding...He wished he wasn't paraded around, looking at girls as though they were objects, forced to pay visits to them and exchange niceties, all the while pretending to be interested.

It did help that he had close friends back at his palace. He had his guards, Percy, Reyna, and Jason, who were all very close to him and protective, and he had his sister, Hazel.

However, he only was allowed to have Reyna with him.

Which sucked.

He needed Hazel for emotional support. Whatever, if Nico had a panic attack that would be a plus. Then there would be no way in tartarus that Rachel would be interested. In fact, he mused, maybe its better this way.

"Nico. Psst...Nico...Niccoooo."

Reyna was calling him. She poked him in the side and indicated with her head that he had to go back to his father. The princess was arriving.

Will POV

God damn.

That was the only thought that entered his mind as he stared at the foreign prince.

Prince Nico.

With dark, shaggy hair, beautiful obsidian eyes, pale, olive skin, almost the color of creme, but slightly darker.

He was lithe as a dancer, graceful and elegant with slight muscle definition. He had full, pale lips, the color of ripening peaches. He wore dark robes, with a small silver crown, all very understated.

He was perfect.

Rachel POV

Sure, Nico was attractive. He had that whole dark-broody thing going on. And Rachel could tell that Will was attracted to him, even though Will was quite good at hiding his sexuality. But Rachel? No, the foreign prince did nothing for her.

In fact, she was much more interested in that guard the prince had with him.

Reyna, she thought her name was. That was such a gorgeous name. Reyna. Rachel could have sworn it meant queen. An ironic name, perhaps, given Reyna's position, but still a beautiful name nonetheless. Perhaps it described Reyna's royal features, with her high cheekbones, emotion-filled dark eyes that were big and surrounded by full dark lashes.

Damn it. Rachel couldn't afford to be attracted to a guard, and a girl at that. She really hated being royal.